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Hubble spies a skewed spiral galaxy | Space photo of the day for May 5, 2025

Arp 184 or NGC 1961, a skewed or "peculiar" spiral galaxy, is still stunning in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space

Oxygen was just found in a distant galaxy — and it may provide answers on how ours developed

The galaxy is 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth

The Independent UK

Seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors'

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behaviour of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Ano Nuevo Natural Reserve. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Can your eyes keep up with a 500Hz gaming monitor? The answer may surprise you

To see if these new 500Hz monitors are worth it or not, I spoke to a display expert and the answer is more complicated than you might think.

Tom’s Guide

5 times the James Webb telescope rewrote physics in 2024

The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

LiveScience

The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or change its age?

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in December 2021 it has provided groundbreaking insights. These include discovering the earliest and most distant known galaxies, which existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

The Conversation

AI researchers run AI chatbots at a lightbulb-esque 13 watts with no performance loss — stripping matrix multiplication from LLMs yields massive gains

Elimination of matrix multiplication from LLM processing can massively increase performance-per-watt with the correct optimizations, researchers from UC Santa Cruz demonstrate. It remains to be seen how applicable this approach is for AI in general.

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UC Santa Cruz Reports Many Arrests At Pro-Palestinian Demonstration

Pro-Palestinian demonstration at UC Santa Cruz leads to arrests. Global protests on Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue.

Top News

Earliest and most distant galaxy ever photographed with James Webb Space Telescope

This is not only an incredible technological achievement, it could also unlock the mysteries of how the universe began

Digital Camera World

University of California academic workers strike to stand up for pro-Palestinian protesters

Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday

The Independent UK

Academic workers at UC Santa Cruz strike over crackdown on Gaza protests

Union says response of University of California to pro-Palestine demonstrations violates rights of advocates and workers

The Guardian - US

Jailbroken coin-operated washing machines unlock unlimited free cycles and millions in funds — unpatched security vulnerability could also pose a fire hazard

Sherbrooke and Taranenko of UC Santa Cruz found a flaw in the CSC Serviceworks app called CSC Go, where it has a flawed API allowing a custom script to authorize free laundry cycles, add credits to the account, and bypass its safety checks, potentially making its internet-connected washing machines a…

Tom’s Hardware

Graduate workers in California to strike over treatment of Gaza protesters

Widespread disruption expected after workers vote to hold series of strikes, starting Monday with UC Santa Cruz

The Guardian - US

Lawsuit Over UC Santa Cruz's Diversity Statements Dismissed on Standing Grounds

The court concludes that, because the plaintiff hadn't applied to be hired, he didn't have standing to challenge the policy.

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The Guardian - US

‘It gets worse every day’: why are sea lions and dolphins dying along California’s coast?

The unprecedented outbreak has scientists concerned as record number of animals turn up lifeless on beaches

Tribune News Service

Beethoven’s hair: How a San Jose State museum docent turned genetic researcher debunked a famous relic

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tristan Begg was an anthropology student at UC Santa Cruz and a Beethoven fanatic when he volunteered as a docent at San Jose State University’s Beethoven center in the summer of 2009.

Los Angeles Times

As California student housing crisis deepens, solutions face roadblocks at UC and elsewhere

As California's student housing crisis deepens, plans to build more campus apartments and dorms are facing myriad roadblocks that could delay construction of thousands of urgently needed beds across the state's three public higher education systems.

Los Angeles Times

This WWII weapons bunker has a new mission: Sheltering a scientist’s insect collection

LOS ANGELES — A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens.

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Los Angeles Times

UC housing crisis forces students into multiple jobs to pay rent, sleeping bags and stress

LOS ANGELES — Matthew Chin couldn't wait to dive into the life of a UC Santa Cruz college student after the loneliness of online learning. But instead, he is missing out on the camaraderie of roommates, dorm life and full slate of campus activities he had hoped to embrace.

The Independent UK

Ancient skull reveals how all brown bears carry genes of polar cousin

Researchers were able to obtain DNA from the skull of a young polar bear that lived 100,000 years ago.

Zenger

Holey Moley: Astronomers Find Rapidly Growing Black Hole From Early Universe

“The team obtained evidence that GNz7q is a newly formed black hole".

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